How to perform addition action on login in Laravel 5.8? - laravel

Question

In Laravel 5.8 the Auth\LoginController is just:
class LoginController extends Controller
{
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Login Controller
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This controller handles authenticating users for the application and
| redirecting them to your home screen. The controller uses a trait
| to conveniently provide its functionality to your applications.
|
*/
use AuthenticatesUsers;
/**
* Where to redirect users after login.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $redirectTo = '/my-team';
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('guest')->except('logout');
}
}
On login I want to perform some custom actions for the user, but I can't figure out where I can place this code. The documentation doesn't seem to help.
Is there a method I can overwrite/extend with my own?
Laravel 5.2 used to have a login() method in the Auth controller where I could just write additional code.

Answer 1

You can override the login() method in LoginController. As you said, in Laravel 5.8 the login() method doesn't exist, but you can define it yourself. The newly defined login() method will override the default one and then you can do whatever extra you want to after or before the user signs in. Here is a snippet from Laracasts:
public function login(Request $request)
{
$this->validateLogin($request);
if ($this->hasTooManyLoginAttempts($request)) {
$this->fireLockoutEvent($request);
return $this->sendLockoutResponse($request);
}
if(Auth::attempt(['email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password, 'is_activated' => 1])) {
// return redirect()->intended('dashboard');
} else {
$this->incrementLoginAttempts($request);
return response()->json([
'error' => 'This account is not activated.'
], 401);
}
$this->incrementLoginAttempts($request);
return $this->sendFailedLoginResponse($request);
}
Just go through it and see what has been done there. In short, you can modify the login() method to do whatever you want before or after a user signs in.

Answer 2

There are two functions provided by the AuthenticatesUsers trait. You can customize those in the login controller.
Login Form
public function showLoginForm()
{
return view('auth.login');
}
Handle Login
public function login(Request $request)
{
$this->validateLogin($request);
// If the class is using the ThrottlesLogins trait, we can automatically throttle
// the login attempts for this application. We'll key this by the username and
// the IP address of the client making these requests into this application.
if ($this->hasTooManyLoginAttempts($request)) {
$this->fireLockoutEvent($request);
return $this->sendLockoutResponse($request);
}
if ($this->attemptLogin($request)) {
return $this->sendLoginResponse($request);
}
// If the login attempt was unsuccessful we will increment the number of attempts
// to login and redirect the user back to the login form. Of course, when this
// user surpasses their maximum number of attempts they will get locked out.
$this->incrementLoginAttempts($request);
return $this->sendFailedLoginResponse($request);
}
You can place these two functions in the login controller and make changes as you want.

Answer 3

The best place to add your custom actions is to override authenticated method in your LoginController
protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
// Your code
}

Answer 4

Just go to where the Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers trait is located and you will find all the methods you want
it's located in :
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Auth/AuthenticatesUsers
Or you can overwrite it in the LoginController to do what ever you want